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@Dylan, awesome thanks.
Continue to see poor ebay sales even after running my weekly sale. Poshmark is doing ok thankfully and even had a few on Mercari. I hope they are just temporarily testing people to try to get them to promote higher.
I don’t have another good forum but would love to hear if someone does. I listen to a couple of podcasts to try to keep up on the news – the selling on Ebay podcast, pure hustle podcast. There are some others but there is too much banter or off topic stuff for my taste. I sure miss Scavenger Life. I also follow a few selling groups on Facebook that are not attached to influencers but there is not a lot of great information on those.
There is a lot of chatter in the Facebook groups about Ebay making site changes and slow sales. My sales really dropped off a cliff after last weekend but I haven’t listed in over a week and my sale ended Sunday night. There was also talk of Ebay enforcing requiring the country of origin due to tarriffs. I tried to bulk edit but was unable to do so without going into all category item specifics. LMK if you have another way.
Got an interesting email from Ebay. It gave me 50 listings to revise supposedly 90 days old or more. I thought I had gotten rid of those but I guess I missed some relists. Anyway, they had some suggestions, many included making a longer description. Some suggested adding photos and others adding free shipping. I took the list and bulk edited prices a bit. We’ll see if that helps at all.
Pretty much no listing last week as I had a local pop up show on Friday. I’m still doing my big unlisted sort. I have a lot of sales to get out this morning, then I should be able to return to listing tomorrow. I’m going to try the AI listing again for some items, for others I will probably stick with sell similar on Ebay and then cross post. I kind of made a mess of unlisted items near my desk and need to decide what to focus on. Really I should probably make myself go back to linens. Doing the sort gets me distracted.
I registered for all. It would be awesome if they are recorded and then transcribed. I’m enjoying skipping material in my podcasts lately using that feature.
Sales really dropped off since last weekend so I started a 5% extra off coupon with my 15% off sale.
Also in news this week on Ebay, Ebay and others are threatened by agentic AI shopping because they will lose their leverage to make us pay extra for listing placement. So they are blocking that traffic. https://www.valueaddedresource.net/ebay-bans-ai-agents-updates-arbitration-user-agreement-feb-2026/
Store newsletter results – announcing sale:
Your summary
Nov 01, 2025 – Jan 30, 2026
868Total reach
46.43%Open rate
1.5%That is probably me opening it. LOL. Unfortunately it sent this multiple times for some reason. I manually went in and canceled it.
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</div>@timo this is my store link. https://www.ebay.com/str/retrodecormore I totally revamped my categories and considering further dividing with subcategories. I really need to scare up some better featured photos. I’m not making a video, which is the last step to “complete your store.” I created my logo and my banner for free on Ebay. The simple banner doesn’t look great on desktop but looks good on mobile.
19 listings. Seems to be my average weekly these days. Better than my old average I guess. I got a few linens listed but got sidetracked again with listing other things.
PS. I did send newsletter announcing this week’s perma-sale. Ebay chooses the listings shown, which was definitely not what I would have picked to feature.
My store front isn’t great and I don’t look around in others’ stores. It was easy to create except that I manage it on desktop and got lazy with adding photos that I didn’t grab from stock listings since the rest are in my phone.
I think you can have up to 300 categories. I have just made the number that makes sense for my types of items, about 14 categories for 850 unique listings. I feel like it may have been better to create subcategories under vintage vs modern but I’m not going to get into that. I’m not sure how that would look on a phone.
Interestingly, the Ebay reviewer could not see my traffic page. He had me look and tell him. I was surprised how many hits if it was just 30 days. It is super rare for people to use the shopping cart and buy multiple items.
Awesome. It’s so interesting since this was not what they said would happen at Ebay Open.
I spent some time redoing and consolidating my Ebay store categories. Everything was a hot mess in the wrong category and I had created a few that aren’t really a big part of my store.
I also have my shipping policies all cleaned up. I sent out a newsletter to all of my groups with a sale announcement. Hard to tell if that helped or not but I had a few sales since then. I also listed too.
Working on sorting unlisted inventory today.
